Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-18

the guage Of cold truth. As one by one
these brief visitors came home and told
such things. the fever grew and spread
| to
VISIT CALIFORNIA.
This did the business. To see was to
believe. To believe was not to be salts
fed with anything short of pulling up
stakes at the old home. packing up the
lares and penates and removing bodily
with
bag and baggage, scrip and scrippage."
| To the Golden State. So the stream Of
humanity across the continent swelled
to tidal wave. Then came the era Of
excursions, and all sorts Of devices to
make q visit to the Pacific as
little trouble, as expeditions and as little
expensive as might be. The Masons,
the Grand Army and other large bodies
held their conventions here, and going
back told their whole story in the lam
guage of King Solomon: 1.-THE half had
not been told u.s." The future of the
State is thus fired beyond doubt. 1t
would be hard to find any one east of
the mountains who does not want to
COME TO CALIFORNIA.
Their desire is wise one. Nor will
they be disappointed, whatever portion
Of the State they may settle in. Cali.
fornia is California, 'as sure as eggs is
eggs" No other portion of creation
can be found TO equal this land of the
setting sun. For pleasure. profit or
health, the flower. clad Goddess of the
State can sign herself. like Lydia Pink
ham. "Yours." Not that all the State
is the same, by any sort Of means.
While California is California, yet there
is California and California. The hair.
splitting theologies tell religious votaries
that there are degrees of bliss in heaven.
So there certainly are in California, and
the highest degree is found right here in
sEMI.TRoP1c CALIFORNIA.
This is not the verdict of the people
who have lived here for a long time
past. It is the decision of the eastern
visitors. Long and earnestly as the
Papers of the State have labored for the
cause of the Commonwealth, all the ad-
vertising done had little effect until the
people on the other side of the CONT.
nent had come here and verified by their
own senses the glowing reports. This
same means of judging of the State at
large has been brought to bear to dis.
criminate between the widely separated,
and as widely different portions of Cali
fornia. Their judgment is phaticaIly
in favor of the Southern end Of the
State. The result is that all the great
excursion parties head directly for Los
Angeles. They scatter from hero
kkn Aoka g.
the east as their taste inclines. In fact,
thousands of people at the East do not
speak Of California at all. and never
speak of any particular town in the
State excepting Los Angeles. She,
with her orange groves and sunny skies,
stands in the mind of the average
fasteners as the..synonym and exponent
of all California.
Hence it is that all the up.country
towns have their agencies now in Los
Angeles where the attractions of the
several sections are spread before the
eyes of the tourist to induce him to visit
San Jose, Oakland or Sacramento
There is not the slightest objection to
this on the part of Angelefios. Some
half.dozen up.coHntry agencies pay rent
on offices, board at our hotels, car fare,
and all the other expenses incident to
their being here. 1t is not 80 enter
prising on the part of the people of the
northern portion of the State, as it
would be if they set up these agencies
in eastern cities and tapped the stream
at its fountain head, instead of coming
here to divert from our orange groves
the stream which has been carried across
the continent, for their benefit. Still it
benefits Los Angeles to have these
agencies here, more than if they were in
Chicago.
This is not the only means sometimes
resorted to in order to draw the tourist
away from the sunny south OF
California to the central and
northern part of the State. The
agency system has some of the elements
of legitimate business about it. The
scheme of telling of snow storms in Los
Angeles in the past or present tense
Nature abhors nothing more than vacu.
ums, and perhaps it is her innate con.
tempt for mendacity which prompted the
motherly old thing to come to the vindi-
cation Of her favorite child and cover the
central portion of California with snow
just as this system Of gentlemenly piracy
had been begun to draw away the people
who came to see Los Angeles.
THE INHERENT DIFFERENCES
Of the several portions of the Golden
West will be as firmly and fully grssped
by the visitor as is the excellence Of oil
California over all other portions of the
Union. It would be wiser for the several
portions of California to see this fact,
and to act upon it. A party which goes
away from the warm, balmy airs and
sunny skies of Southern Califor-
MIA to run into q snowstorm
at the bay, fog-bank in Oak.
land, . "Santa Cruz mist" along
the upper coast, or the sharp air from
the sumu.its of Shasta. will not fail to
appreciate the change. If he has gone
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